Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-05-03
The Bloody Shirt.

The leading BLAINE organ is the New
York Tribune. The leading SHERMAN
organ is-or was-the Cincinnati Com
ial-GaScttc. But il was reported
last week that Mr.. BLAINE had whilst
in the West sent for Mr.. HLsrEAD, the
editor of the Cincinnati organ, and
they twain had thus been brought to-
gether, and had had a long confab.
OF course the two plotters talked
about the next President. Was HAL-
STEAD really devoted to SHERMAN, or
was he simply acquiescing in his can
didacy as an Ohio aspirant? Anyhow,
had he (HALsTEAD) made up his mind
as 10 whether there was or was not any
issue possible between the two national
parties, promising more to the Repub-
hcan party and its nominee than
they could make out of the
waving of the bloody shirt If
the bloody-shirt issue was to be the
dominant one in the next presidential
campaign, what did Mr.. HALsTEAD
think of beginning the waving of the
ensanguined garment at once? There
was only twelvemonth between now
and the election of delegates to the Re
publican National Convention, and
would it not require at least that much
time TO "incarnadine the northern
seas?
And what did Mr.. HALSrEAD answer ?
BY the way, it must be understood that
we did not hear the supposed CONVEX
satIon between BLAINE and HALsTEAD,
and we do not know that it took place
jus. as we have reported it; but We
think that "when the wind is mormon
west. we can tell hawk from hern-
shaw; and we hatter ourselves that
we have discovered that Mr.. HALsTEAD
has betrayed himself, and just as good
as told the public that he has deserted
SHERMAN except in name or pretence,
and enlisted under the standard of the
"Plumed Knight" Here is our proof.
We copy it from Mr.. HALsrEAD's own
paper. He says;
1--WE should think Calhoun, if he
were here to-day, might consent to
the verdict, finding lis sovereign States
of the South consolidated and master
of the situation the master-caste voting
for themselves and for the labor-caste
also-one southern vote counting as
much in national affairs as two i'll the
North, southern gain through the
alleged emancipation and enfranclse-
ment of the blacks of thirty-scven cleo
toral and congressional votes, and the
black vote under control and reduced
at pleasure, and reinforcing at CON-
mand-a great northern State (Dakota)
kept out Of the Union for the purpose
of maintaining the narrOwness OF the
margin that has to be made up above
the solid South to control the nation
and all agitation against this prepos-
terous state of affairs denounced as sec
tional politics and stigmatized as
bloody shirtism-wh We should think
even the soul of Calhoun ought to be
satisfied.
There it is. The bloody shirt floats
upon the breeze already, and Mr.. HAL
STEAD owns up that he knows what
"bloodyshirtism is. OF course, he
knows, too, that the electoral college is
based upon population, and that vote
in the North counts as much as one in
the South, but he wanted to make
little party capital.
We tell Mr.. BLAINE and Mr.. HAL
STEAD plainly that if there are any
peterborough presidential electors,
these are to he found in Vermont,
Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island.
&C., &C., where the population is so
small that the State is entitled to only
one or two or three or four congress
men, but elects nevertheless three or
four or five or six electors Of President
and Vice-President OF the United
States. There's the seat of the wrong
il there is any wrong in the case. The
six New England States gave BLAINE
thirty two electoral votesin 1884, though
all of them together cannot boast of as
much population as New York-nay,
cannot boast of as much population as
Pennsylvania.
And BLAINE halls from New Eng
land. Mr.. HALsrEAD, try again.